Lemons on postcards you can personalize
We see them everywhere, but what do we really know about lemons? Do we even know where the lemon comes from? It's not clear, but maybe this small evergreen tree is native to northeast India. Gene studies show it to be a hybrid between the bitter orange and the citrus medica, a large fragant citrus used in Asian cuisine. Lemons have been in Europe for some two thousand years; it was lemon juice which eventually kept seafarers from getting sick with scurvy. There are many varieties of lemons, grown in tropical areas around the globe. These range from the Meyer Lemon, awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit, to Italy's Sorrento lemon used in the making of the sought after limoncello liqueur, to the Eureka lemon we find in the supermarket because that variety flowers and fruits all year long. But the only thing we care about for this article is that lemons and lemon trees are pretty, and make a great subject for art on a postcard!
Just Lemons
If you want a beautiful print of lemons and greenery on a postcard, this could be the one! This is a beautiful watercolor all over surface pattern, meaning the image used for this light and airy postcard can be used on larger items like fabric or even wallpaper (the old fashioned kind that goes on the wall you are facing when you are looking at your computer screen, which may indeed have wallpaper as used in the more modern techy sense.) This pretty lemon design was perhaps created for use in farmhouse decor. But in this case, it's on a lovely little postcard you can send to say hello.
Vintage is a popular and wide ranging style. Sometimes vintage means art from the vintage of another era, and sometimes vintage can refer to a design made to look old. This vintage image features a ripe, yellow lemon with leaves on top set against an antiqued craqueline background of whites and off-whites. What a nice postcard to send to vegetarians and cooks. And don't forget any postcard can be put into a small frame and used for decorating. Traditional designers might use this in kitchens and dining rooms. As the verbiage on the design is French language, le citron meaning the lemon, you might consider this pretty fruit postcard for a teacher gift.
Did I mention lemon trees are pretty? Here's the proof. With a little care, a Lisbon Lemon or a Meyer Lemon can do well in a pot. The prettier the pot, the better for a nice postcard.
I don't keep up with this kind of thing, but either now, or at some time in the recent past, lemons must have been a popular theme for weddings, because it's easy to find wedding invitations with lemons. Here's a pretty RSVP postcard which is probably part of a large suite including all the kinds of wedding stationery you could possibly imagine. If you are just postcard shopping, this card may not be exactly what you were hoping for, but on the other hand, maybe you are planning a lemon wedding. Click through to the card and then click the handy personalize button to fill in the entire form and find the rest of the wedding stationery suite.
Fun with Lemon Art
Here's a cute little bathing beauty cat lounging on a pool float that looks like a lemon. It's listed as an Announcement Postcard, and I guess the postcard creator expects you to use the Edit Design tool to add your own new address info. Just click Edit Design if you want to try it out. This lemon cat moving announcement would be ideal for anyone who has moved their cat and the rest of the family from some cold and rainy place like Oregon to Sunny Florida.
I am not sure which artist comes to mind. Could it be Matisse? Matisse did a lot of work with lines on walls and other surfaces, and we do have stripes on the purple wallpaper here. Also the perspective looks pretty Matissy, don't you think? On the other hand, one of the tag words the creator uses is clip, and then art, so perhaps this postcard design is made from some kind of clipart? The description at Zazzle is A black and white cat sitting next to a table that has a big blue bowl full of lemons on it. She is wearing a collar with a heart. I just think the color of this little lemon cat makes this a super fun postcard.
Lemons as Transportation
Zest by Florent Bodart is an illustration which seems pretty famous now that I have taken a little spin around the web looking for more information about the artist and the drawing. I didn't find any info, but I still like the card and thought you would too. Lemon slices do seem reminiscent of bicycle wheels in all their spokey splendor.
Lemons and Lemonade
And finally, let's end with another lemon postcard with purple. I just love this Purple Violets, Lemonade Mason Jar Thinking of You Postcard. We're told we can make someone smile with these pretty purple violets surrounding a mason jar with lemonade and lemon slice. I believe it. Moreover, this card is an excellent example of how you can personalize a Zazzle postcard in order to send a custom message. In this case, you can click through to the card, and find the Personalize button. Then you click there, and replace the current greeting with your own. Same can be done on any of the cards featured above, except most of these particular cards will not have that particular button. Instead you click the Edit Design button and then use the left panel to add your own text. It's pretty easy and it's what makes Zazzle unusual in the Print on Demand world. You can print up just one lemon postcard with your own message. How cool is that!
If Zazzle should send me a penny or two when someone buys something I have carefully chosen to display on this blog, the price stays the same. The card costs nothing extra. For the reader, my quest to find and post some nice cards in which you might be interested, adds nothing to the cost.
The Symbolism of a Lemon Postcard
The symbolism of lemons has a long and varied history. Though they are sour and can symbolize bitterness, lemons have other more positive meanings. Love potions of the Middle Ages used lemon blossoms due to a belief that this bright yellow fruit symbolized fidelity, and romance and adoration. Because lemons and other citrus fruits were imported to temperate cities from faraway tropical lands, lemons came to symbolize wealth. And of course lemons seem to have cleansing properties, so they can be a symbol of purification. Many societies consider the lemon equivalent to love and friendship. I suppose this is why images of lemons are used in wedding invitation art. And this is also why you will want to send lemons on postcards to your friends and those you love.
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